APRIL
3rd AAN Spring Sweep Silent Auction Fundraiser • 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
10th Iron Bar Tender at The Box sponsored by Children’s House
10th Nantucket AIDS Network Swing Into Spring March 27th 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. at the Rose & Crown
22nd: NHA “A Passion for People: 40 Years of Nantucket Portrait Photography by Beverly Hall” at
Whitney Gallery 4 pm.
23rd-25th: Chamber of Commerce Daffodil Festival Weekend
24th Small Friends “Spring Down the House”
MAY
8th: NCMC Spring Dance & Concert at Nantucket Yacht Club 7:30-10 pm
8th: Mother's Day Yard at Children’s House, 7 Pheasant Dr.
8th: Nantucket S.T.A.R. Spring Gala, Chicken Box
19th -23th: Nantucket Wine Festival
20th: Nantucket Wine Festival Gala
21st: Egan Maritime Sea Dogs exhibition opening party at the Shipwreck Museum
22nd: Nantucket Wine Festival Wine Auction & Dinner
27th: Egan Maritime Sea Dogs exhibition opening party at the Coffin School
29th: AAN Sidewalk Art Show #1 • An all-day outdoor art show in the garden of the Nantucket Atheneum
JUNE
5th: Flea (and Tick) Market at the Nantucket MSPCA Animal Care and Adoption Center.
7th-13th: Nantucket Restaurant Week
12th -13th: Nantucket Boys & Girls Club Sam Sylvia Pro-Am Golf Tournament
13th: Dreamcatcher Dinner & Auction sponsored by Palliative & Supportive Care of Nantucket
24th: “Shakespeare in the Garden” sponsored by Nantucket Arts Council 5pm-8 pm
Last week of June: Lightship Basket Museum Cocktail Reception
JULY
1st: NHA “Sometime Think of Me”: Notable Nantucket Women through the Centuries. Exhibition Opening Whaling Museum.
7th: High Tea and Silent Auction in the Garden at 19 Pleasant Street sponsored by Senior Center
8th: Egan Maritime Nat Philbrick new book presentation 7 pm
9th: Art Opening to Celebrate the Linda Loring Nature Foundation, Graficas Gallery, 18 Broad Street
9th: AJ Mleczko Charity on Ice Celebrity Hockey Game and Barbecue at Nantucket Ice
10th: AJ Mleczko Charity on Ice Dinner and Auction.
11th: Nantucket S.T.A.R. Wheel-A-Thon 9 a.m.
11th-18th: Nantucket Arts Council Shakespeare Festival
11th: Nantucket Boys & Girls Club Annual Clambake
11th: Maria Mitchell Association Summer Gala 6-8 p.m. Sankaty Golf Club
15th: Small Friends “Event Under the Tent” Preview Party
15th: Nantucket Preservation Trust Summer Kitchens Tour, 10 am – 5 pm
16th & 17th: Small Friends “Event Under the Tent”
17th: Conservation Foundation “Race for Open Space”
17th: AAN Annual Benefit Art Auction & Gala • 5:00 p.m.
18th: Kids Helping Kids Walk-a-thon 9am Nantucket Cottage Hospital
24th: Sustainable Nantucket-Locally Grown Summer Benefit Dinner
22nd -24th: Nantucket Garden Festival sponsored by Lighthouse School
25th: Lightship Basket Museum “Baskets & Bubbly Live and Silent Auction”
27th-31: Nantucket Comedy Festival
30th & 31st: Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival Performances
31st: AAN Sidewalk Art Show #2 • An all-day outdoor art show in the garden of the Nantucket Atheneum
AUGUST
3rd: Friends of the NHA Lecture
4th: MSPCA’s 5th Annual Fashion for Compassion “A Nantucket Evening of Tails on the Catwalk”
5th: NHA August Antiques Show Preview Party
6th-8th: NHA August Antiques Show
6th: Theatre Workshop Gala, Sconset Casino.
7th: NHA Antiques Show Cocktail Party & Dinner
7th-15th: Nantucket Race Week
12th: Nantucket August Fete, 6 – 9 pm
14th: Hospital –Boston Pops on Nantucket
15th: Opera House Cup Regatta and Awards Party
16th: Egan Maritime Bob Ballard Program and Fundraiser
21st: Nantucket Boys & Girls Club Tim Russert Summer Groove
21st: Sandcastle & Sculpture Day (Chamber of Commerce & NISDA)
22nd: AAN Benefit Croquet Tournament at the Westmoor Club
25th: Inter Atlantic Music Foundation of New York presents Opera Concert Unitarian Church 7 p.m.
27th: Inter Atlantic Music Foundation of New York presents Opera Concert Unitarian Church 7 p.m
SEPTEMBER
11th: Elder Expo at NHS sponsored by Saltmarsh Senior Center
11th: Egan Maritime Lifesavers Recognition Day at Shipwreck Museum
Date TBD: 5:30 PM: John Buttrick Music Concert benefitting Saltmarsh Senior Center.
12th: Swing for Nantucket Cottage Hospital Pre-Tournament Party Sankaty Golf Club
13th: Swing for Nantucket Cottage Hospital Golf Tournament Sankaty Golf Club
19th: Nantucket S.T.A.R. “Touch A Truck” 10 a.m.
24th & 25th: Egan Maritime Forum and Festival
26th: “Taste Nantucket” Fall Restaurant Week Opening Event
27th-Oct. 3rd: Nantucket Restaurant Week
OCTOBER
8th: AAN Wet Paint Weekend Opening Party • 6:00-8:00 p.m.
9th: Coffee & Donuts with the Wet Paint Auction Artists • 10:00 a.m.
9th: Conservation Foundation “Cranberry Festival”
10th: AAN Wet Paint Auction • 5:00 p.m.
10th: AAN Wet Paint Auction Benefit Dinner & Pleasing Palettes III Silent Auction Reservations only 6:30 p.m.
11th: Dinner at Ship’s Inn benefitting Nantucket Center for Elder Affairs
16th: Chamber of Commerce Chowder Contest
NOVEMBER
20th: Small Friends Shopping Mall 6pm-9pm
20th 21st: Lightship Basket Museum Annual Yard Sale
22nd-Hospice: Tree of Remembrance Service 4 p.m.
23rd: NHA Festival of Wreaths Preview Party
24th-28th: NHA Festival of Wreaths (Excluding Thanksgiving)
25th: Atheneum’s “Cold Turkey Plunge”
26th: Chamber of Commerce Community Caroling and Tree-Lighting Ceremony
DECEMBER
2nd: NHA Festival of Trees Preview Party
3rd-20th: NHA Festival of Trees
3rd-5th: Chamber of Commerce Christmas Stroll Weekend
5th: Photos with Santa at the Nantucket MSPCA Animal Care and Adoption Center
6th, 7th, 8th: Senior Center Annual Christmas Bazaar and Silent Auction at the Saltmarsh Center
24th: Chamber of Commerce Red Ticket Drawing
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